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Title(s)
The first crusade : the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites : "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum" / translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb.
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Published/Created
London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.
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Physical Description
92, [2] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D161.1 .G47 1945+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
"The present translation is based upon a collation of the three mediaeval manuscripts now accepted as being nearest to the original."--Introduction.
"The First crusade has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Poliphilus type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Composition and press-work under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. Printing completed on the eighteenth day of December, 1945. Compositors: J.W. Perrin and A.W. Dick. Pressman: H. Barker. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Numbers 1-100 have been specially bound."--Colophon.
"First English edition (in London) A.D. 1945."
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 168
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 11 of 500; signed by the translator. Bound in white full vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
SML,Y Bh34a +890gg copies 1-2: Photocopies. "No. 114." -
Subject Terms
Crusades -- First, 1096–1099. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
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Form/Genre
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Wood engravings -- 1945.
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